Laura K. Field is a writer in Washington, DC. She studied political theory and public law at the University of Texas at Austin, has held faculty positions at Rhodes College, Georgetown University, and American University, and today is a Scholar in Residence at American University and Senior Advisor with the Illiberalism Studies Program at George Washington University. Laura has a longstanding interest in political culture and how thinking (and writing, and rhetoric) shapes our lives, which pairs well with current questions about the crisis of liberalism and rising authoritarianism around the world. She has worked extensively on the right-wing (“New Right”) intellectuals who rose to prominence under the Trump administration. Her book Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right is forthcoming from Princeton University Press in November 2025.